next month will begin the first field demonstrations of its ECO2 technology, a system that attaches to coal-fired power plant stacks and traps carbon dioxide. The Portsmouth, N.H.-based company will install a one megawatt pilot-scale unit designed to trap 20 tons of CO2 a day at the R.E. Burger Plant in Ohio, operated by
Powerspan also is conducting engineering studies prior to the sale and installation of $200 million worth of ECO2 commercial scale demonstrations at Antelope Valley Station in North Dakota under and the WA Parish plant in Texas under
Those demonstration systems would be operational in 2012 and able to trap a million tons of CO2 a year, and will be used by Powerspan to try to sell the ECO2 to larger, 500-megawatt sized plants that yield 5 million tons of CO2 a year.
, a technology manager at the U.S. Dept. of Energys oratory, said a handful of companies, including of France, of New York, and of Virginia are developing CO2 capture technologies, but none has
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